Cobie
About 683 American babies have been named Cobie since 1972, most of them around 2001. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 670 Cobies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cobie boys named Cobie
Girls and boys called Cobie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 278 girls and 405 boys in all, and in 2021 the split was 23 to 9.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 683
- Estimated living today
- 670
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 2,562nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1972
- Girls / boys
- 278 / 405
How old the living Cobies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 683 babies given the name since 1972, about 670 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Cobies
- Cobie Smulders (born 1982)Canadian actress
People named Cobie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cobie is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Cobie peaked:
Cobie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Cobie | 533 | 773rd |
| England and Wales girls | Cobie | 50 | 4,063rd |
| Scotland boys | Cobie | 16 | 599th |
| Ireland boys | Cobie | 3 | 741st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Cobie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.